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Lifelong North Platte resident Fred Linder, 46, revealed Monday that he doesn't think he could cope with the fast-paced hustle and bustle of Omaha. "Oh, sure, I bet it'd be exciting at first, going to see 9 p.m. showings of movies," Linder said. "But I just don't think I could put up with all that hub-bub for more than a day or two."

To old political hands, wise to the ways of candidates and money, 1972 was a watershed year. Richard M. Nixon's re-election campaign was awash in cash, secretly donated by corporations and individuals.
Fred Wertheimer, a longtime supporter of campaign finance regulation, was then a lawyer for Common Cause. He vividly recalls the weeks leading up to April 7, 1972, before a new campaign finance law went into effect requiring the disclosure of the names of individual donors. "Contributors," he said, "were literally flying into Washington with satchels of cash."

I'm sure you're all familiar with internet celebrity Fred or Fred Figglehorn as he's also known. Fred is starring in his second movie, Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred, and giving us a little bit of a (ahem) interesting parody of Twilight. Check it all out below: For all your devotion to "The Twilight Saga," perhaps you still feel that there's something missing in the canon of Cullen-inspired entertainment? Something mysterious? Something essential? Something like... THIS?! This weekend on Nick, internet celebrity Fred Figglehorn is starring in his second movie: "Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred." And while we're not entirely sure how to describe the cinematic triumph that is Fred (except to say that his high-pitched voice makes our bellybutton area feel kind of funny), we do know that this very special, "Twilight"-inspired moment from the movie is an important addition to the vampire oeuvre. Especially since an early draft of the "Twilight" script did, in [...]

I'm sure you've come across Fred & Friend products before at your local indie store and might not have even known it. Last weekend I was cruising around town and stopped at an indie store only to find one whole corner of the place dedicated to Fred